Asian Television Network
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| Type | Public (TSX-V: SAT) |
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| Industry | Media |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Headquarters | Newmarket, Ontario |
| Key people | Shan Chandrasekar, Chairman & CEO |
| Products | Broadcasting |
| Website | www.asiantelevision.com |
Asian Television Network International Limited (often just referred to as Asian Television Network or ATN) (TSX-V: SAT) is a publicly traded Canadian broadcasting company, with 33 television channels in 9 languages, serving diverse South Asian cultural communities in Canada. ATN operates a South Asian Radio service on XM, available in Canada and the United States. Headquartered in Newmarket, Ontario, the company has been in operation since 1997, and is headed by longtime Indo-Canadian broadcasting stalwart Shan Chandrasekar.
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[edit] Awards and Recognition
- 2011 TSX Venture 50 [1]
- 2009 Newmarket Chamber of Commerce Large Business of the Year [2]
- 2008 Jaya Chanrasekar inducted into Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame [3]
- 2004 Shan Chandrasekar inducted into Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame [4]
[edit] Assets
[edit] Television
ATN currently owns and operates 22 Canadian television channels and has licences for several others. In addition, ATN is a major distributor of cricket programming in Canada, as it possesses the Canadian broadcasting rights for many of the top cricket events in the world.
- ATN Aastha TV (Hindi/Gujarati)
- ATN Alpha ETC Punjabi (Punjabi)
- ATN ARY Digital (Urdu)
- ATN B4U Movies (Hindi)
- ATN B4U Music (Hindi)
- ATN Bangla (Bengali)
- ATN Channel (Hindi, other South Asian languages)
- ATN Cricket Plus (Sports channel- English)
- ATN Gujarati (Gujarati)
- ATN Jaya TV (Tamil)
- ATN JUS Punjabi (Punjabi)
- ATN Malayalam (Malayalam)
- ATN MH 1 (Punjabi)
- ATN NDTV 24x7 (English)
- ATN NEO Cricket (English)
- ATN Punjjabi TV (Punjabi)
- ATN SAB TV (Hindi)
- ATN Sony Aath (Bengali)
- ATN Times Now (English)
- ATN Zee Cinema (Hindi)
- ATN Zoom (Hindi)
- Commonwealth Broadcasting Network (English)
[edit] Foreign Services
In addition to the 22 O&O channels that it has launched itself, Asian Television Network also distributes a number of foreign services in Canada. ATN is the official Canadian distributor for the following channels:
- Asianet Plus (India)
- Asianet Suvarna (India)
- Aapka Colors (India) [5]
- Channel i (Bangladesh)
- Channel [V] Taiwan (Taiwan)
- Life OK (India)
- NDTV Good Times (India)
- NDTV India (India)
- NDTV Profit India)
- SET Asia (India)
- SET Max (India)
- STAR Chinese Channel (Taiwan)
- STAR Chinese Movies 2 (Hong Kong)
- STAR News (India)
- STAR Gold (India)
- STAR Vijay (India- Tamil)
[edit] Radio
On October 27, 2007, ATN launched a 24hr South Asian satellite radio station on the XM Satellite Radio platform. It features news, sports & entertainment programming broadcast primarily in Hindi & Punjabi, among other regional languages.
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